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[Discuss] Frustration with SQL and Spreadsheets



> On 4/15/26 10:55 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
>> I don't see any obvious
>> down-sides to using a SQL or SQL-adjacent database for the backing
>> store. Just that nobody I know of except Javelin (which I learned of
>> today) ever did.
>
> I can imagine it suggesting the user interface not present the world as
> a single matrix of cells.
>
> Wasn't there an early Macintosh product that was a something like that?
> A distant and vague memory???
>
I hate getting older, I have so many distant and vague memories. I'm not
even sure how many are real. LOL.




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